2020 TRB Meeting Agenda - ActivitySim/activitysim GitHub Wiki

Agenda

  • Admin
    • Project governance review
      • Governance Document
      • MOU/MOA
      • Contracting
        • Aligning contributions & scope
      • Project operating plan (new doc?)
    • Membership
      • Outreach
      • Member Status
  • Phase 5A
    • Input and Output Improvements
    • Support for Modeling TNCs and For-Hire Vehicles
    • Model Developer Tutorial
    • PopulationSim Integration
  • Phase 5B
    • Scope review
    • Contribution coordination
      • ARC and SEMCOG projects

Meeting Slides

ActivitySim_Partners_Meeting_TRB_2020_Annual_Meeting.pptx

Notes

  • MOA
    • First MOA signed in 2013 and current MOA expires end of 2021
    • When a new partner joins, all agencies must re-sign the MOA
    • Maybe agencies could contract directly with AMPO in the future to avoid linking all agencies through the MOA?
    • Maybe add the ActivitySim annual fee to the AMPO membership fee? Agencies other than MPOs can join AMPO.
    • Partners discussed the need to continue to better align funds, scope, and deliverables for contracting
    • @Bill will organize an agency procurement meeting to discuss updating the MOA
  • Work Tasks
    • The group is growing so maybe we need an improved plan for management / oversight of work?
    • Maybe subgroups manage certain tasks?
    • Maybe a management / maintenance / pull requests review work order now that we have ARC and SEMCOG projects?
    • ARC experience contributing to ActivitySim has been good so far
    • RSG planning to start contributing through the SEMCOG project as well
  • Weekly Calls
    • We have 6 months for the current work order and it is going to go fast so let's move to weekly calls
    • @Ben setup a management call and then a technical call every other week
  • Website
    • Partners discussed the need to better organize the wiki
      • Better identify key decisions made during the life of the project
      • Add overall direction / vision to the site...like a framework, roadmap
      • The mission of the project is not to be bleeding edge, but rather state of the practice, reliable
      • The strategic plan task should hopefully address some of these issues
  • Marketing / outreach
    • @Bill to create some marketing materials, a 1 pager, some AMPO website updates, maybe a logo, a session at the AMPO conference
  • Phase 5a review
    • Making good progress on all tasks
    • Reviewed TNC design and @Ben to add discussion of TNC in TourCast and CT-RAMP 2 approach
    • We will have taxi and TNC to transit in the example
    • Reviewed the in-development tutorial
    • Plan to have two recipes - an auto ownership recipe and adding TNCs recipe
    • It will be integrated with the online user's guide to avoid duplication
    • Maybe split into two tutorials - application (auto own example) versus development (add TNC)
    • We can discuss in more detail on the next call
  • Phase 5b review
    • We quickly reviewed the upcoming work and plan to get started soon
  • We need to asap tag releases on GitHub for versioning model setups